Matt Haig

How much is, this is just what I'd be doing if I was starting now.

If I was starting now, is this what I'd be doing?

And it's impossible to know.

And it can work both ways.

Because like, I mean, my tastes naturally are quite commercial.

Like I've genuinely, I mean, I was a child of the 80s.

So, you know, Spielberg movies and John Hughes movies, you know, that's just like.

And S.E.

Hinton novels and, you know, it's quite commercial tastes that I genuinely like, but things that are seen as commercial.

So sometimes when you're being accessible, you are being totally authentic to you as well.

So it's not always a case that being more obtuse or difficult is.

or personal even, is necessarily you being more true to yourself.

And I think in Britain, it's sort of doubly so, you know, because we have class systems.

So we therefore have a class system of books.

We have high, middle, low books.

Yeah.

Well, I think there's an Anya Hinmarsh boots, isn't there, somewhere in...

i don't know i'm going i'm going now there is but um yeah no i i so i i think because i'm i'm quite an annoying person and i'm quite sort of like trying to sort of like rebel against myself even sometimes so i almost am drawn to unfashionable things sometimes like stubbornly because because i recognize that certainly like

When I was a young man and I did an MA in literature and you're sort of encouraged to think a certain type of thing is literature and you're taught to be suspicious of story, happy endings.

This is what they teach you at an MA?